He also requested some record of the hearing be kept, through a stenographer or otherwise, but Kropp said Ibrahim would have to pay for one out of pocket.

When the hearing began, the bank employee allegedly forced to open all the teller drawers, Ashley McHone, testified first. She said a shorter man jumped across the counter while a taller man stood in the middle of the bank.

Police allege the shorter man was Ibrahim.

Davis is significantly taller than the other two defendants and was likely the man in the middle of the bank.

“He was standing in the middle, making sure no one moved,” McHone said of the taller man from the robbery.

Both alleged bank robbers brandished handguns during the robbery.

According to newly-minted Lower Pottsgrove Police Detective Daniel Kienle, who investigated the robbery and is listed as the arresting officer for all three defendants on court documents, police reviewed surveillance footage corroborating what McHone said.

He said both suspects in the robbery were wearing hats and bandannas or scarves covering their faces.

The person who “vaulted” the counter was wearing a Sonic the Hedgehog baseball cap and orange underwear, surveillance footage showed, according to Kienle.

McHone said the two men left the bank and she believed they were in a silver sedan which she and others saw leaving the scene.

Byrd is accused of being the robbery’s wheel man, according to his lawyer, Michael McDermott.

“He was never inside the bank, according to the evidence they have,” McDermott said. “He is what they call a “hacker.” He was used by these other men to drive from the scene.”

In the trial, McDermott said he thinks those facts will come out and Byrd won’t have to answer to as many of the charges as the other two might.

When Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Gabriel Magee asked how McHone felt during the robbery, she broke down.

“I was scared,” she said. “I have a baby at home and I was afraid I was never going to see him again.”

Coincidentally, just before Byrd’s hearing, a woman came in holding a 3-week-old girl. The baby was Byrd’s and he’d never seen her before due to being in jail. He smiled brightly as the woman carrying the child sat next to Byrd’s father just behind the chair where Byrd sat in a red Montgomery County Correctional Facility jumpsuit.

Testifying after McHone, Kienle said an off-duty Upper Merion police officer noticed a silver Hyundai Sonata traveling on Route 422 after a description was broadcast on police radio the afternoon of the robbery. After other Upper Merion Police tried to stop the car, which paused briefly before continuing on Interstate 76, the car was eventually ditched in a Lower Merion neighborhood, Kienle said.

It was reportedly found with the trunk open, where police recovered bank bags with coins inside as well as packaging for a bandanna like one used in the robbery and wire-rimmed sunglasses matching those worn by one of the bank robbers in surveillance footage.

Byrd’s ID was also found in the trunk, according to Kienle.

Nearby, he said police discovered clothing like that worn in the robbery, including the Sonic the Hedgehog cap.

Money from the bank in a grocery bag matching surveillance footage was also found, he said. The amount was just shy of what was reported as taken, according to Kienle.

All three defendants were taken into custody and Kienle said that although he was wearing clothes different than those worn by the suspect in the robbery, Ibrahim had on orange underwear and grey shoes which matched those worn by the robber as captured on the security cameras at the bank.

Petrillo moved for dismissing charges based on the fact that employees in the bank couldn’t positively identify the defendants from the robbery.

Magee said there is too much evidence implicating Ibrahim to not move him on to trial.

Kropp held Ibrahim on all charges and left his bail at $1 million, the same as the other two defendants, despite a plea for an adjustment from Petrillo, citing Ibrahim’s wife and two children.

“He’s from Philadelphia and decided to come out here to Montgomery County and put a gun in a teller’s face,” Magee said.

Ibrahim, Davis and Byrd are all charged with similar counts of robbery, assault, theft, reckless endangerment, and corresponding conspiracy charges.